Puerto Rico?s governor, its mayors, and its representative to Congress have all called attention to the island territory?s desperate situation, but the president hasn?t mentioned Puerto Rico on Twitter since the middle of last week. He has largely focused on NFL players instead.

Rachel Maddow reports on Kurdish people voting on a referendum to become independent from Iraq, a situation the U.S. has fought to prevent but Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been paid to promote.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday signed into law a controversial language bill which has sparked a standoff with Romania and other east European states. The law states that starting in September 2020, students will be taught exclusively in Ukrainian from the fifth grade onwards, though they can still learn their native languages as a separate subject. The legislation has also raised hackles in Ukraine's sizable Hungarian and Polish minorities.

A few days after Hurricane Irma slammed into south Florida ? while there were still tight travel restrictions and curfews in place ? Bette Zirkelbach stocked an ambulance with supplies and raced south.